u/Charming_Barber7627

So I got back from my first pig hunt a couple weeks back and it has me wanting to get back into hunting (mostly coyotes), and now I've got the itch for a new gun.

I dropped a pig with my 20" grendel AR with a fat handguard and thick AF stock, and I dropped a 2nd with my marlin 336C in 30 30. Both guns got the job done, but I didnt enjoy lugging that grendel around nearly as much as I did the marlin.

I want to build a 2nd grendel. Ive never built a gun before so im kind of overwhelmed. I want a gun whose weight with can and glass is similar to my marlin 30 30 with glass.

Criteria ive kinda sorta settled on:

Suppressor - Dead Air Nomad Ti XC OR Scythe Ti

Barrel Length - 16" OR 18"

Handguard - M-Loc, my hands are small, so a small diameter handguard similar to the fn15 guardian or whichever Springfield armory rifle i just held earlier today with a small diameter handguard.

Butt Stock - adjustable, again similar to the fn15 guardian.

Budget - flexible but ideally $2500-$3500 all in rifle + can + glass.

This tree (l think its an oak?) is in my front yard I think theres life left in the tree. but there were a bunch of deac limbs I removed today. There are still some dead limbs left. but I didnt feel safe removing them with ust my polesaw (too high, need a lift)

There's some bark falling off, and some maybe abnormal growth. Some guy said I should give the ground around the tree shots of a supplement (maybe it was iron?) But he was trying to sell the shots. so I don't want to take his worc for it.

Thoughts and suggestions?

Im also wondering if that thick limb low to the ground with only a few offshoots left that are producing leaves should come down? Is that too much mass to be supported by so few leaves and the tree would be better off without it?

Help me build a lightweight suppressed 6.5 grendel.